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85+ of the Best Twitterers Designers Should Follow

There are thousands of designers on Twitter tweeting about everything from ongoing projects to their personal lives. But only a small percentage of those tweet about design topics of interest to other designers and design addicts. These people cover everything from their design process to their own projects, and design resources from all over the web. Below is a list of more than 85 of those Twitterers.

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Multi-Disciplinary

@abduzeedo - Fabio Sasso is a graphic and web designer, as well as blogger. He often retweets really useful links from all over the place and offers up his own links to content valuable to designers and creative types. A sample tweet:

@AndrewKelsall - Andrew Kelsall is a web and graphic designer who does all sorts of creative work including logo and print design. He tweets about a huge range of design-related topics. A sample tweet:

@anthonywoods - Anthony Woods is a graphic designer and web and software application developer. His tweets include tons of great design links with lots of retweets. A sample tweet:

@artistech - Artistech Newmedia is a design and production firm working with web, print, and video. They tweet tons of great design content for both print and web designers. A sample tweet:

@bartelme - Wolfgang Bartelme is a user interface and graphic designer. He tweets some great resources for designers, including design-related technology. A sample tweet:

@bongobrian - Brian Paulowicz is a web designer and graphic artist. He tweets about daily life and web design resources. A sample tweet:

@chrisspooner - Chris Spooner is a graphic and web designer and a blogger. He tweets about daily life along with tons of useful resources for designers. A sample tweet:

@gracesmith - Grace Smith is a freelance web and graphic designer who's also interested in social media and web standards. Her tweets focus a lot on graphic design topics but also on web design and development and useful online tools and resources. A sample tweet:

@jasonsantamaria - Jason Santa Maria is a designer who works both online and off. His tweets focus mostly on his day to day life as a designer, while offering up some pithy insights and useful links. A sample tweet:

@logocritiques - Erik Peterson critiques logos on his blog and is also a web and graphic designer. He tweets about life as a designer and offers design links and resources. A sample tweet:

@mayhemstudios - Calvin Lee is a print and web designer and owner of Mayhem Studios. He tweets tons of awesome design links and articles, including retweets of great content. A sample tweet:

@Minervity - Richard Darell is a web and graphic designer and the founder of Minervity.com. He tweets tons of great design links focused on both web and graphic design and other technology topics. A sample tweet:

@mlane - Mike Lane is a user experience developer and a web and graphic designer. He tweets tons of great design links as well as other social media and web resources. A sample tweet:

@nicholaspatten - Nicholas Patten is a graphic and web designer and a video editor. He tweets about graphic and web design, providing great links and other resources. A sample tweet:

@r27 - Rajesh Pancholi is a print and web designer with R27.CREATIVELAB. His tweets largely focus on resources for designers, including great places to find inspiration. He also retweets tons of informative posts from others. A sample tweet:

@ronicadesign - Veronica Domeier is a freelance print and web designer. She Twitters a number of amazing design resources along with snippets from her daily life as a designer. A sample tweet:

@smalonedesign - Stephanie Malone is a graphic and web designer. Her tweets include updates about her work as well as tons of design resources, including lots of retweets. A sample tweet:

Web Designers

@9swords - A front-end web developer and designer with a website at Zubeta.com. His tweets largely focus on CSS and other design topics. A sample tweet:

@amerz - Amy Mahon is a former freelance web designer who now works for Blubolt. She tweets about her design process, daily life, and some great design examples and resources. A sample tweet:

@atsmith - Adam Smith is an award-winning web designer and social media and typography aficionado. He tweets about design with a special focus on typography. A sample tweet:

@BazDeas - Baz Deas is a freelance web designer. He tweets tons of great design links and resources, as well as about life as a designer. A sample tweet:

@bgardner - Brian Gardner is a freelance web consultant. He tweets tons of awesome design stuff, including links and resources, along with other social media and Internet-related content. A sample tweet:

@bittbox - Jay Hilgert is a designer and the blogger behind Bittbox. Hilgert considers himself a “Freebie Maker” - he likes "to give away only the best quality stuff to help designers everywhere." He tweets about Bittbox's content along with other useful design links and resources. A sample tweet:

@bluewavemedia - Kimberly Beaven is the creative director at BlueWave Media and a web designer. Her tweets include tons of design-related links along with other social media related resources. A sample tweet:

@boagworld - Paul Boag is a web designer, and the author of the Website Owners Manual. He tweets about his podcast, life as a designer, and provides great resources. A sample tweet:

@bokardo - Joshua Porter is an interface designer and social software consultant. He tweets about general design, social media, and the web. A sample tweet:

@cameronolivier - Cam Olivier is a web designer and "budding web developer" from South Africa. He mostly retweets tons of awesome links from all over the Twitterverse dealing with web design and development. A sample tweet:

@ChadEngle - Chad Engle is a designer and WordPress user. He tweets about all sorts of design resources, including posts on his own blog and retweets of others' updates. You can also connect with Engle at @dcth where he holds design community Twitter hours every Thursday from 6pm - 8pm ET using the hashtag #dcth. A sample tweet:

@chriscoyier - Chris Coyier is a CSS designer and blogger. He tweets mostly about design, including his own projects. A sample tweet:

@cjgraphix - Collin Robinson is a freelance web designer and developer. He's very engaged with his followers and his tweets revolve mostly around his design process and projects. A sample tweet:

@clagnut - Richard Rutter is a web and user experience designer and author. His tweets cover tons of design resources, ideas, and similar content. A sample tweet:

@corePHP - corePHP is a web development and graphic design firm. They tweet about their business but also offer up valuable tools and links for web and graphic designers. A sample tweet:

@cssglobe - Alen Grakalic is a web designer and developer. His tweets regularly cover a broad range of design and development topics including trends, fonts, and plugins. A sample tweet:

@davidlano - David Lano is a designer, blogger, and entrepreneur. He tweets about design, technology, and social media and promotes tons of useful stuff. A sample tweet:

@DesignerDepot - Walter Apai runs Webdesigner Depot, a blog about web design. He tweets lots of useful links, both from his own blog and others. A sample tweet:

@designshard - Max is a web designer specializing in css and xhtml, and a typography lover. He runs Design Shard, a blog dedicated to providing designers with tips, inspiration, and free resources. He tweets all sorts of design related stuff, including print and web designs. He's also very engaged with his followers and the community as a whole. A sample tweet:

@DesiznTech - Kawsar Ali is a web designer and "wannabe photographer." He tweets links to lots of useful design roundups and resources, as well as retweeting lots of great info. A sample tweet:

@dustinbrewer - Dustin Brewer is a freelance web designer who tweets about the design process and offers up lots of useful links and resources for designers. He's also actively engaged with the Twitter community and his followers. A sample tweet:

@idesignstudios - Selene M. Bowlby is a web designer and front-end web developer. She tweets about the process of design and running a design business, and is very involved with her followers. A sample tweet:

@jggube - Jacob Gube is the founder of the blog Six Revisions and a web designer and developer. He tweets great design-related links to tutorials, freebies, and more (including the business of running a design firm). A sample tweet:

@jophillips - Jon Phillips is a web designer and typography addict. He tweets about design, including his own projects and process along with some great resources. A sample tweet:

@leonfernandes - Leon Fernandes is a web designer who specializes in search engine optimization and marketing. His tweets focus on web design with an emphasis on SEO resources. A sample tweet:

@Othella - Amelie Husson is a web designer and self-proclaimed Internet geek. She tweets lots of great design resources and online tools. A sample tweet:

@RussAdams - Russ Adams is a web designer and blogger. His tweets focus on design, ranging from web design to Photoshop techniques to T-shirt design. A sample tweet:

@sazp - Saz is a web designer and the owner of You Know Who Design. Her tweets focus largely on her design projects, process, and technology, along with occasional design links. A sample tweet:

@sethjenks - Seth Jenks is a web designer and entrepreneur. He tweets mostly about design and offers up some great resources and tutorials. A sample tweet:

@sh3n3rd - Mitsi McKee is a web developer and designer, and an artist - she even designs cupcakes! She tweets a lot about design inspiration and life in general. A sample tweet:

@simonashley - Simon Ashley is a web designer and developer. His tweets vary between design and other personal interests. A sample tweet:

@styletime - Roger Byrne is a social media designer. His tweets run the gamut from talking about his projects and process to some great design and social media resources. A sample tweet:

@tonychester - Tony Chester is the owner of OnWired, a design and development company. His tweets focus mostly on design, including his own projects and some awesome links. A sample tweet:

@veen - Jeffrey Veen is a former designer for Google Analytics and was manager of their web apps user interface team. He tweets about all sorts of design topics as well as daily life. A sample tweet:

Blog Designers

@adii - Adii is a WordPress rockstar and co-founder of WooThemes. He tweets about life as a designer, his projects, and some great design resources. A sample tweet:

@blogdesignblog - Vinh Le is a blogger and blog designer. He Twitters about his daily life along with blog theme design. He's also actively engaged with his followers. A sample tweet:

@Pliggs - Pliggs is a web designer, social networker, and blogger who seems to specialize in blog theme design. His tweets focus on design resources and daily life as a designer. A sample tweet:

@problogdesign - Michael Martin is a blog designer who blogs on the subject. He Twitters all kinds of useful design resources and is very engaged with his followers. A sample tweet:

@woothemes - Woothemes is a site offering up premium WordPress themes. Their tweets offer up tons of great info for WordPress design along with news about their own themes. A sample tweet:

@wpcandy - WPCandy is a blog devoted to WordPress. Their tweets focus on all things WordPress, including theme design. A sample tweet:

Graphic Designers

@Aisleone - Antonio Carusone is a graphic designer. He authors AisleOne, an "inspirational resource focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism." His tweets focus on all sorts of graphic design topics, including tools and sources of inspiration. A sample tweet:

@arronlock - Arron Lock is an independent graphic designer and blogger. He tweets about all kinds of design topics, many of them in the world of offline design. A sample tweet:

@behoff - Brian Hoff is a graphic artist and blogger. He tweets an amazing number of quality design resources. A sample tweet:

@digitalmash - Rob Morris is a designer and blogger. His tweets revolve a lot around his life and design process but also offer up tons of great links to design resources. A sample tweet:

@ilkeryoldas202 - Ilker Yoldas is a freelance graphic designer. She tweets tons of information useful to designers, including links to design tutorials, techniques, and theme design. A sample tweet:

@imjustcreative - Graham Smith is a logo and graphic designer. He Twitters obsessively about design, focusing a lot on logos (obviously), typography, and related topics. A sample tweet:

@jasonwalz - Jason Walz is a graphic designer and art director. He tweets some amazing graphic design resources from all over the place. A sample tweet:

@LogoMotives - Jeff Fisher is a designer and author. He tweets a lot about his design company but also offers up great design resources from all over the web. A sample tweet:

Miscellaneous

@attackr - Attackr is a web development portal for developers and designers. Their tweets cover all sorts of Internet topics and aren't just limited to design (though design and development related tweets definitely make up the majority of their updates). A sample tweet:

@buildinternet - Build Internet! is a web design and development blog. Their tweets revolve around design and development with a focus on the business side of design. A sample tweet:

@collis - Collis is an entrepreneur and blogger. He tweets about tons of Internet and social media subjects but also throws in plenty of design resources and links. A sample tweet:

@Colorburned - Grant Friedman is a design enthusiast and blogger. His tweets offer up tons of great resources covering all aspects of design. A sample tweet:

@creativeworld - Leon Poole is a blogger and the owner of Creative World. He tweets all sorts of design related content, including plenty of WordPress info. A sample tweet:

@dburka - Daniel Burka is the creative director at Digg. He tweets great design resources, including links for both web and other mediums. A sample tweet:

@DesignNewz - Design Newz is a great resource for design and development related news and resources, including tutorials. Their tweets offer up informative links from throughout the web. A sample tweet:

@inspiredm - Inspired Magazine offers up tweets to give daily inspiration to designers of all kinds. They also regularly update about WordPress and Twitter in general. A sample tweet:

@khoi - Khoi Vinh is the design director at NYTimes.com. His tweets run the gamut of design topics (as well as plenty of unrelated tweets) but he does offer up some great content on occasion. A sample tweet:

@netmag - Popular magazine .net tweets about all things design and development related, including conferences and their own magazine, as well as actively engaging with the community. A sample tweet:

@patterntap - Pattern Tap is a site that offers great examples of design from all over the web. Their tweets revolve around resources and tips for designers, including tons of valuable links. A sample tweet:

@Pinch_Bespoke - Pinch is a design office that Twitters six times each and every day. Their tweets revolve around design, branding, and sustainability. A sample tweet:

@printmag - Print Magazine has been around since 1940 and offers up great design and visual culture content. Their tweets revolve around useful resources for graphic designers as well as their own magazine content. A sample tweet:

@vpieters - Veerle Pieters is a blogger and graphic artist. She tweets a lot about her design process and daily life but also offers up some great links to design resources and actively engages her followers. A sample tweet:

@webdevnews - webdevnews.net offers up web design and development news written by programmers for programmers. Their tweets revolve around the same, including posts from their own blog and links to resources from all sorts of other sites. A sample tweet:

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